By FireRescue1 Staff
MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. — An off-duty firefighter saved an unconscious child locked in a car at a park.
ABC News 4 reported that the firefighter used his radio to call police after witnessing the child slumped over in her car seat.
According to the incident report, the child was unresponsive, even when the window was broken with a baton. The firefighter and police officers were able to revive the child, who “appeared to be really confused and disoriented.” They moved the child to a patrol car for water and air conditioning before an ambulance arrived.
The person who left the child in the vehicle, 39-year-old Clark Carl Riggins, returned to the scene and said he was coming back from track practice because he saw patrol vehicles. He told officers he only left the child in the vehicle because the child did not want to go with him.
Riggins was charged with unlawful conduct toward a child.